The Cahill's

Last night it snowed! A little bit mind you, but really it wasn’t even December yet! Three hours North of Bryan makes a big difference in the weather.
In other news….Last night we had the Cahills over (Brian’s family).

I served the big lasagna (from the earlier post), a caesar salad, fruit salad and homemade sourdough bread. Note the new dishes – they came in just in the nick of time, otherwise we would have been eating on paper plates. I’m really thrilled to have them – now our kitchen is complete!
 We showed them the apartment, had dinner and visited around the table for a while then moved to the living room where the guys played Spades and I talked with Mom and Benj., learned a few new camera tricks from Benj., then beat him at Mancala.
  All in all it was a very fun evening and I had a blast hosting our first guests.
Coming soon…Christmas decorating!

Brian had a few first’s this week:
  For the first time in our entire relationship (a whole five months!) Brian didn’t open my car door to get me out when we stopped! On the way home from Thanksgiving with my family we came across a two car wreck – looked like they had hit each other and one car then plowed into a light post. We were the first ones on the scene – the accident victims weren’t even out of their cars yet. Brian pulled to the side of the road and rushed out to see if he could help in  any way, I followed close behind. He helped a guy who was kind of beat up and unconscious at first until the police arrived on the scene, at that point it looked like the guy would be fine and we left. I again opened my own door, this time because Brian had blood all over his hands – we stopped at the nearest gas station so he could wash up.
The other first was that he ate a meal by himself for the first time since we had been married. I had to go into town and do some shopping and work on getting my passport changed and thus was gone over lunch. He sent a sad email to my account for me to see when I got home about how lonely it was in the dining hall without me.
 Tonight I’m going to have a first of my own – a computer lesson on website building basics. Should be interesting.
Now I have to go meet my man for lunch

In honor of the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving, I’m going to post a little about cooking here in my new house.
I’m happy as a lab in water in my little kitchen and have utilized just about every dish and utensil that I have. The pots work great and I love the knives – they’re so sharp!

Things are cooking…..

Making lasagna right now. Have you ever made one in a loaf pan before? It was the only thing I could think of that was small enough to be for two people!
 
The big one is for guests.

Next I broke in my new mixer with a good batch of ginger snaps!

Ahh…the kitchen has now been properly christened.

Of course, after I’m done in the kitchen there’s usually a LOT of dishes! (As my family may well remember)

Fortunately I have a great dish washer! (It came with the apartment).